The Penn's Grove record., 1887-05-28
OF THE WEEK

The white lead and paint works
at College Point, Long Island, were
burned on the evening of the 18th.
Loss, S75 COO; insurance about $4,000,
"A passenger train on the Inter
national and Great Northern Railroad
was stopped at Mcneil Station, a few
miles from Austin. Texas, on the even
ing Of the 18th, by about twenty rob-
bers, who rined the express ar. A
number of shots were hred. One re-
port says a man was slightly wounded
in the hand, and another that two
men were killed. The mails were not
touched, but the passengers had to
surrender their valuables. Fifty
mounted and armed men have gone
from Austin to Mcneil.
AT San Francisco on the 10th,
Philip Keyenberg, aged 2G years, shot
and killed Mary Fessler, aged %, and
then shot and killed himself. The
cause is believed to be the woman's
refusal to marry him. Morris john
son, being drunk and jealous, tried to
kill his wife in Indianapolis on the
afternoon of the 18th. lie was pre-
vented by a neighbor, w%hereupon he
ran up stairs and committed suicide.
AT Savannah, on the 10Th, VIII
liam Fuller, a colOred artilleTyman,
was blown to pieces during the firing
of a salute in honor of the passage of
the Fifteenth Amendment.
"A sleeping car on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad was thrown from
the track near Salida, Colorado, at 5
O'Clock on the morning of the 10Th,
Grace Leslie, leading lady of the Kate
CastletOn troupe, was killed, and DR..
George Cox and Conductor Aubrey
were severely injured.
The Secretary of the Interior, on
the 10Th, made a requisItion on the
Secretary of the Treasury for S9,000,-
900, to be used during the present
month in payment of pensions.
II passenger tram on The Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ran Into
some cattle near Pueblo, Colorado, on
the morning of the 18th. The engine
and mail and express cars were ditebed.
Three tramps were stealing a ride on
the train, and one of them was killed,
the other two being slightly injured.
The wife and mother of Melvin Hunt
ress, Of Portsmouth, New Hamsphire,
were killed on the afternoon of the
10Th, by an engine while driving owe a
railroad crossing in a wagon. Two
men employed ON the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks were killed by a train
at Deans Station, near New Bruins
wick, New Jersey, on the afternoon of
the 10th.
The Broad Street National Bank,
of Trenton, N. j., was, on the 10th,
authorized to begin business with a
of 500. 000.
the explosion of a boiler in a
mill at Fulton, Kentucky, on
tie 18th, three men were killed and six
others injured. one PERHAPS fatally.
-Sayles & Nichols mill at Pasoag,
Rhode Island, was nearly destroyed by
fire on the morning OF the Goth. The
building and machinery are insured for
s52, 600, One hundred and seventy-fiv
persons are thrown out of employment.
Bakers lumber yard and the Comstock
planning mill, in Adrian, Michigan,
were burned On the morning of the
Goth. Loss, $50, 900. The ferry boat
Tappan Zee was burned at Nyack. New
York, on the morning of the Doth
loss, $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Incendiarism is suspected. Three
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
st~ock.pens, with ten freight cars, a
quantity of freight and seven horses,
including the racer George L., were
burned in New Orleans on the 10Th.
Loss, 500, 900. Ulrich & Riffert's cor
set factory, in Pittsburg, was burned
on the morning of the 10th, and several
adjoining buildings were damaged. The
fire is attributed to incenciarism.
& Co.'S foundry ami machine
in South PIttsburg, were de-
by fire on the evening of the
both. Loss, 100000, covered by insur-
ance.
"A mau giving the name of Henry
and his age as "a years,
the Central Station at Chicago
On the Goth and said he was the muir
of a policeman named Girard,
recently assassinated at Kankakee.
said he lived four miles
from Kankakee, and he shot the police
man because he saw his wife meet the
officer In the alley where the body was
subsequently found. Girard had always
borne a good reputation. Thirteen
years ago, David Silver, of Ramford,
disappeared. and was not heard
Of afterwards. His father, Who had
lust died, made a confession that he
killed his son In self defence with a
sled stake and buried the remains
under his barn.
"A a of gasoline exploded in The
house of a man named Grim at Ryan.
Ohio, on the 10Th. Mr.. and Mrs.
Grim and Mrs. Belts were badly
Mrs. Grim's arms may have
20 be amputated, and Mrs. Belts Is not
expected to recover.
The village of Lake Linden; or
Torch Lake, in Keweenaw county,
Michigan, was destroyed by fire on the
both, notbiEg being left in tie place
a saloon and one small store.
The fire started in a brick block. Over
200 buildings were consumed. The
loss Is estimated at 81, 100000. The
assurances amount to about S735. 600.
. fierce gale of wind promoted the
of the flames. 1t Is rumored
hat several lives were lost, but this is
not verified.
The Sheriff of Williamson county,
with a large posse, is pursuing
the men who robbed the International
and Great Northern Railroad train at
Station of about 5000. Blood
are used to track the fugltlyes.
AT Greenyille, Ohio, on the even,
of the 10th, a mysterious robbery
.ook place at the house of John w.
a wealthy citizen. ale was
It home at the time. His wife was out
The thief got $1,000 in cur
-ency and gold, Both Mr., aud Mrs,
Spayd are so much excited that they
IAN give no statement of how the theft
occurred"
Forest fires are still burning In the
Michigan Peninsula, but are abatlng
many places. The losses through
he wind storm Of two weeks ago aud
fires are estimated a. high as
-, 000, 900.